It has faster download speeds, it’s more secure and it’s designed for homes with lots of devices.

I mentioned it in passing while listing some of the phone specs, but I had more than one person write to ask me what Wi-Fi 6 was all about because they had not heard of it.

We all know what Wi-Fi is, but not a lot of us know there are different versions of the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard. The versions have been labeled by letters like 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac.

The Wi-Fi Alliance, the group that sets the Wi-Fi standards, has decided to change the naming scheme, and the newest version of Wi-Fi is known simply as Wi-Fi 6, meaning it’s the sixth generation of the Wi-Fi standard.

Those names were pretty clunky before, so I like the new ones.

Going forward, 802.11n is Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac is Wi-Fi 5 and what was called 802.11ax is simply known as Wi-Fi 6.

Each generation of Wi-Fi has been an improvement over the previous generation — usually by making the download speeds faster.

Wi-Fi 5 had a theoretical top speed of 3.5 gigabits per second, but real world speeds are always slower depending on the environment.

Wi-Fi 6 has a top speed of 9.6 Gbps, but more importantly, it introduces some new technologies to make all the devices on your home’s network operate faster, especially if you have a lot of Wi-Fi devices.

Wi-Fi 6 is better at talking to more devices at once. It will help everything on your network work better and faster.

Your device communication will also be more secure with the introduction of a new Wi-Fi security protocol called WPA3.

To take advantage of Wi-Fi 6, the first thing you’ll need is a new Wi-Fi router. Most of the advantages of Wi-Fi 6 happen on the router side.

Right now there are not very many Wi-Fi 6 routers for sale. TP-Link and Netgear have a few.

Others will certainly follow.

The OnePlus 8 Pro is the first device I’ve reviewed with Wi-Fi 6, but I’m sure I’ll be seeing more soon.

Jim Rossman, Technology reviewer. Jim Rossman is a Software System Specialist for the University of Texas at Dallas. He worked for 20 years at The Dallas Morning News and now freelances as a tech reviewer for the Business section.